This is no run-down home being haunted instead, we’re navigating the luxurious house of an affluent family and a small troop of maids.
The first half-hour of Sabrina makes you forget all about that Raggedy Ann doll, as director Rocky Soraya takes full advantage of both modern technology and the socioeconomic status of the main family to give us new twists on tired tropes. While the use of the Charlie Charlie game gives Sabrina a modern edge that teenagers will instantly recognize, it already makes the movie a bit of a throwback. Of course, something goes wrong and an evil entity enters our world and threatens the family. In her grief, Vanya is convinced by a classmate to play the Charlie Charlie challenge to try and summon her mother’s spirit. Together they’re caring for Aiden’s niece Vanya (Richelle Georgette Skornicki) after the loss of her parents. She is now married to another businessman and toymaker, Aiden (Christian Sugiono), who is launching version two of the Sabrina doll. Netflix isn’t advertising that because previous viewing isn’t required - but apparently there’s a booming market for psychics in the franchise’s version of Indonesia, as Laras keeps getting called to investigate dolls possessed by evil entities.Īfter a creepy opening involving a man searching for his wife (who he eventually finds suspended mid-air outside the house), Sabrina picks up with Maira (Luna Maya), previously seen in The Doll 2, in which the loss of her husband and only child led her to communicate with the spirit that ended up possessing the first version of the Sabrina doll. Sabrina is actually the third instalment in The Doll franchise, which follows a psychic named Laras (Sara Wijayanto).
Yet the movie has its twists along with echoing Annabelle, the Indonesian horror film also evokes the couple-hunting-demons dynamic of The Conjuring, and in its best moments, piercing the cultural particulars of the setting, serves as a horror version of Crazy Rich Asians. They cannot run the show with such mediocre films that doesn’t engage the audience at any level.Scrolling through Netflix horror movies, Sabrina looks like yet another film about a haunted doll - a really creepy one (those eyes!), but another in a long tradition. There is absolutely no investment made towards the film, why not work hard on finding a few interesting scenes to make people’s time worth it. If not for the music, Annabelle would have been nothing but a parody of horror movies. How her evil spirit awakens and how these kids get rid of this situation is what Annabelle Come Home is all about.Īnnabelle Comes Home doesn’t have one quality scary scene, it is pretty much of all the previous jump scares helped with a powerful re-recording. On one unholy day, when Ed and Lorraine leave their ten-year daughter with a young teen girl and her friend, Annabelle is let loose. They have placed Annabelle behind a sacred glass. The film basically jams a few teen comedies into a minimalist haunted scenario.ĭemonologists Ed Warren and Lorraine Warren lock their possessed doll Annabelle in an artifacts room in their home. Just because, the franchise mints money like hell, the makers cannot be producing one crappy film after another.
It has a dumb story line and the writing is so shallow. The recent release Annabelle Comes Home has super lazy screenplay with hardly any scares. The conjuring franchise is turning out to be extremely stupid burdened neither by fresh ideas nor common sense.